Example sentences of "[pers pn] be this [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So when I got back to Boston I thought , ‘ God , there must be a way to do this live , ’ so I called up Lexicon and said , ‘ I 'm this guitar player … ’ and they gave me one ! |
2 | How can he be this world class player … when he is a winger but cant even cross the ball ? ? |
3 | Wonder if it 's this road surf- there 's a feeling a bit of vibration on the steering then . |
4 | ‘ It 's this Werner business , Bodo . |
5 | there is a shock wave in the pipe , it 's this shock wave or pulse which triggers the timing light . |
6 | ‘ It 's this tax business , ’ Paul explained , ‘ this levy the Khedive is proposing . |
7 | It 's this island race mentality : the paranoia , the xenophobia , having no land-bridge for twelve thousand years . |
8 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
9 | It is this second concept which has caused all the trouble , certainly ( for example ) in view of what we now know about the very different world of early Precambrian times . |
10 | It is this second problem , plus some related topics , that we will consider in this article . |
11 | It is this second problem which forms the context of this work . |
12 | It is this second part of the argument which is flawed . |
13 | It is this second Bourdieu that this chapter has explored , or , more accurately , used in order better sociologically to understand modernization , modernism , and post-modernism . |
14 | It is this second intuition that is wrong in the case of living machinery . |
15 | It is this second period of affluence which sets the level against which recent developments have to be set . |
16 | It is this second view which is reflected in this chapter and the next , and in Chapter 11 on intervention strategies . |
17 | It is this second meaning which will be addressed in the following chapter . |
18 | It is this second point which is especially relevant in the case of Latin America . |
19 | It is this folk model , epitomized by the graffito ‘ SS/RUC ’ , seen as much in working-class Protestant districts as in Catholic ones , which makes it difficult for ‘ ordinary crime ’ to compete for the attention of criminologists in Ireland ( as a recent publication on crime in Ireland complained ; see Tomlinson et al . |
20 | It is this success story that prompted the College , in conjunction with the Royal Museum of Scotland , to exhibit 17 jewels dating from 1982 — 1992 . |
21 | It is this microwave link , rather than a fibre , that Mercury will extend in stages toward Birmingham later this year . |
22 | It is this family situation as experienced by the child Nizan which requires detailed commentary , for it is precisely here that the fundamental structure of Nizan 's emotional and intellectual outlook was formed , a deep-rooted psychological state which had profound effects on the thoughts and actions of the adult writer . |
23 | However , for this you need right thinking and a right understanding , because it is this thinking impulse and action of the higher truth that ultimately leads to inner freedom . |
24 | Whether in television , theatre , cinema , fine art or charity advertising , the tragedy principle uses the impairment as a metaphor and a symbol for a socially unacceptable person and it is this tragedy principle which is the bone-cage surrounding historical and current disability representation . |
25 | Indeed it is this science fiction/space fantasy motif that runs through his show . |
26 | It is this retrograde flow that is probably responsible for the spread of infection internally . |
27 | In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success , not the recognition theme . |
28 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
29 | It is this age group which is now growing at the fastest rate and the support of the sometimes frail ‘ old ’ is an important policy issue . |
30 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |